KITES

17th October 2009, Sunday Evening 

Kites in the sky at the park in Desa Parkcity. These photographs were taken by Zhen.

 

 

 

CUCI GAMBAR

19th October 2009, Monday Evening 

I went to a photo shop to develop photographs this evening with Zhen, and I was talking to the man at the shop in Cantonese...

Me: Ngor oi sai seong (I want to develop some photos)
Zhen: Mummy, erase photo can do at the computer, why come here ?

ZHEN'S COLOURING

14th October 2009, Wednesday Evening

I was looking at the artwork of the kids in Zhen's kindergarten.  It was a picture of an Indian girl preparing the 'kolam'.  I noticed that Zhen's work is slightly different from the rest.  She coloured the bucket of sand using a few different colours.  Whereas the others coloured the bucket of sand in one colour only.

I asked her why did she colour the bucket this way?  Any reason that she coloured it using a few different colours?  She doesn't know how to explain the reason... and by pointing at her head, she said... "because I used my brain" ;D

KOLAM

16th October 2009, Friday Night

My neighbour were preparing the 'kolam' for the Deepavali festival tomorrow.  Zhen joined in and had some fun!!

WRITING CHINESE

12th October 2009, Monday Night  

While doing her homework, Zhen had all the strokes wrong, in writing her Chinese characters. Hence I corrected her on. She still made the same mistakes after that.
 
Me: Girl, you’ve got the strokes all wrong!

Zhen: Never mind, mummy, the teacher won’t know…

JOGGING

9th October 2009, Friday Evening
I went jogging with my elder daughter.  Zhen only ran a short distance, she wanted to rest.  Again after running for a short distance, she rest again… finally we finished 1 round around the lake. Then I wanted to go for a 2nd round… it has been a long long time since I last exercise and it was a nice feeling “sweating”... ;D
  LZ: Mummy, don’t jog, let’s walk
Me: Ok, u walk, I jog
LZ: Afterwards you tired
Me: I’m not tired
LZ: Afterwards if you are tired, you don’t complain, ok ?
( hmmm.... wonder who’s the mum here? ) 
After jogging/walking about 1 1/2 round…
Me: Yeah, 2 rounds
LZ: Yeah, 1 round… 2 rounds = tired !

44 - 39 . . . "NO HANDS"

30th September 2009, Wednesday Night 
I went grocery shopping with my 5-year old, Zhen. The cashier charged me RM44 for the duo pack of milk powder... but I remembered that I saw a RM39 sign at the shelf.  When I was busy checking it out with the cashier, Zhen just kept bugging me with… what happened mummy..... what’s wrong..... 
I told her, that the girl charged mummy some extra money…  
Zhen: How much, mummy?
Me: 44 - 39, how much? 
Zhen: 44… no hands wor… 39 also no hands… how to count??

IF YOU ARE HAPPY . . .

Early September 2009 

While driving my elder girl home one evening... 
Zhen was listening to the song… “If you are happy….” and commented…
“Why is it that if they are happy, they want to pull their ears?  Pulling the ears is very painful !”

DO DOCTOR

Early September 2009 

While driving my elder girl home after work, one evening...

Zhen:  "Mummy, when I grow up, I want to do Doctor (be a doctor).  Then, baby do teacher.  You… you grandmother already, no need to do.  Mummy, why you do mummy and not doctor?"

EXCUSE ME

25th July 2009, Saturday Bedtime 
I was reading to Zhen on a book about manners, Excuse Me, and recalled this…

 
I was driving one day, 2 years back, when Zhen just started nursery. The car in front of me, from the next lane, cut into my lane out of a sudden. When I pressed the horn, Zhen asked me why did I do that?

Me: "That car has no manners, didn't put on the signal before turning" 

Zhen: "Mummy, that car didn't say Excuse Me ?"

BUT & BUTT

25th July 2009, Saturday Afternoon 

Zhen asked me this:

“Mummy, how do you spell “BUT”, like blah, blah, blah, BUT blah, blah, blah… not this “BUTT” (pointing at her butts)”